Crucial PG&E design information goes to Thailand (Outsourced)

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/05/BUGV72QC5P1.DTL

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has been quietly outsourcing critical design work as part of an overhaul of California's aging power grid, and some of the work is heading as far off as Thailand.

This, say security experts and insiders at the utility, is a reason for Californians to worry.

"We're talking about information on the equipment we use, how it's being used, where it's being used," said Irving Joe, a PG&E design engineer in Oakland. "If that got into the wrong hands, it could be used to sabotage the system."

According to insiders and confidential company documents, PG&E has outsourced design and drawing work to nearly a dozen contractors over the past few years.

The largest recipient of the utility's contracts, Kansas City engineering giant Black & Veatch, is in turn exporting a portion of its work to engineers in Bangkok.

get over it! :grr:....Just think...the Al Qedia will do it for a fraaction of the price Bangkok does it....why not let them do it???

makers.